Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 81 79
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,095 1,730 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.82% 3.50% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 3.94% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 826 1,372
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £92,500 £87,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 1,809 £75,000 +0.67% 1,938
UK excluding London -27 1,150 £67,500 -3.57% 981
Work from Home -21 852 £67,500 -3.57% 912
London -17 792 £85,000 +6.25% 1,172
North of England -54 372 £75,000 +7.14% 295
South East +44 326 £65,000 -7.14% 207
North West -54 201 £80,000 +14.29% 160
South West -23 142 £63,750 +6.25% 96
Midlands -58 105 £75,000 +7.14% 108
North East +9 92 £65,000 +49.86% 52
Yorkshire -5 79 £69,310 -0.99% 85
West Midlands -43 77 £80,000 +14.29% 64
Northern Ireland -19 70 £60,000 +33.33% 67
Wales -16 68 £60,000 +15.38% 21
East of England -46 38 £60,100 -3.84% 81
Scotland -53 33 £65,500 -15.48% 111
East Midlands -69 28 £65,000 - 44
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (2.10%) Confluence
2 31 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.95%) Apache
4 15 (0.72%) CMS
5 12 (0.57%) Camunda
6 11 (0.53%) IIS
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.38%) nginx
10 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.33%) JBoss
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.33%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) Drupal
12 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.14%) DNN
13 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Kentico
13 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.095%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,074 (51.26%) AWS
2 883 (42.15%) Azure
3 326 (15.56%) GCP
4 269 (12.84%) GitHub
5 268 (12.79%) Serverless
6 200 (9.55%) SaaS
7 181 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
8 151 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
9 130 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
10 123 (5.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 122 (5.82%) Amazon S3
12 106 (5.06%) GitHub Copilot
13 94 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
14 91 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
15 78 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
16 68 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
17 65 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
18 61 (2.91%) Azure AKS
19 51 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 49 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.15%) Broadband
2 21 (1.00%) Network Security
3 14 (0.67%) DNS
4 13 (0.62%) DMARC
5 12 (0.57%) MQTT
6 10 (0.48%) AMQP
6 10 (0.48%) HTTP
7 9 (0.43%) VPN
8 7 (0.33%) Internet
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
10 5 (0.24%) RFID
10 5 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.14%) DHCP
11 3 (0.14%) Firewall
11 3 (0.14%) LTE
11 3 (0.14%) NAS
11 3 (0.14%) SAN
11 3 (0.14%) SSL
12 1 (0.048%) OpenVPN
12 1 (0.048%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (15.08%) MongoDB
2 232 (11.07%) PostgreSQL
3 205 (9.79%) NoSQL
4 165 (7.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 152 (7.26%) Elasticsearch
6 116 (5.54%) MySQL
7 109 (5.20%) SQL Server
8 94 (4.49%) Relational Database
9 69 (3.29%) Redis
10 58 (2.77%) DynamoDB
11 44 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.53%) Big Data
13 19 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.76%) Pinecone
15 15 (0.72%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.57%) Db2
16 12 (0.57%) DTS
17 9 (0.43%) Chroma
18 8 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 299 (14.27%) Git
2 191 (9.12%) GitLab
3 165 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 69 (3.29%) TeamCity
5 66 (3.15%) JIRA
6 64 (3.05%) JUnit
7 55 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.96%) Cypress.io
9 37 (1.77%) Mockito
10 36 (1.72%) Maven
11 33 (1.58%) Claude Code
12 28 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 25 (1.19%) Selenium
14 17 (0.81%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.81%) Spock
15 15 (0.72%) JMeter
16 14 (0.67%) Postman
16 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.62%) Vite
18 10 (0.48%) Bitbucket
General
1 538 (25.68%) Finance
2 424 (20.24%) Social Skills
3 237 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 205 (9.79%) Banking
5 165 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 158 (7.54%) Law
7 146 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
8 130 (6.21%) Retail
9 88 (4.20%) Legal
10 85 (4.06%) Financial Institution
11 63 (3.01%) Back Office
12 60 (2.86%) Marketing
13 42 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 37 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.48%) Games
16 28 (1.34%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.86%) Advertising
17 18 (0.86%) Front Office
18 12 (0.57%) Aviation
19 11 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 769 (36.71%) Developer
2 506 (24.15%) Senior
3 375 (17.90%) Software Engineer
4 361 (17.23%) Lead
5 322 (15.37%) Architect
6 200 (9.55%) .NET Developer
7 194 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 170 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 163 (7.78%) Java Developer
10 135 (6.44%) Java Engineer
11 129 (6.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 125 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
13 109 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
14 105 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
15 81 (3.87%) Lead Software Engineer
16 77 (3.68%) Software Developer
17 76 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.34%) Lead Developer
19 66 (3.15%) Technical Leader
20 60 (2.86%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (25.63%) .NET
2 458 (21.86%) React
3 427 (20.38%) Node.js
4 400 (19.09%) Terraform
5 384 (18.33%) Spring
6 346 (16.52%) Spring Boot
7 317 (15.13%) RESTful
8 293 (13.99%) REST
9 286 (13.65%) Kafka
10 239 (11.41%) ASP.NET
11 228 (10.88%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.36%) .NET Core
13 210 (10.02%) Vue
14 194 (9.26%) ASP.NET Core
15 122 (5.82%) Blazor
16 103 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web API
17 96 (4.58%) HTML
18 92 (4.39%) CSS
19 88 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
20 86 (4.11%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 676 (32.27%) Cloud Native
2 389 (18.57%) Distributed Systems
3 167 (7.97%) Product Ownership
4 117 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
6 83 (3.96%) Onboarding
7 59 (2.82%) Public Cloud
8 56 (2.67%) AI Agents
9 52 (2.48%) Virtual Team
10 46 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
11 44 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
12 43 (2.05%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
14 23 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
15 22 (1.05%) Management Information System
16 20 (0.95%) Mainframe
16 20 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 20 (0.95%) Private Cloud
17 19 (0.91%) Algorithms
17 19 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 146 (6.97%) Linux
2 47 (2.24%) Windows
3 30 (1.43%) CentOS
3 30 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.95%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.33%) Debian
7 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.29%) AIX
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,128 (53.84%) CI/CD
2 1,010 (48.21%) Agile
3 753 (35.94%) Software Engineering
4 739 (35.27%) DevOps
5 577 (27.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 547 (26.11%) Mentoring
7 490 (23.39%) Event-Driven
8 462 (22.05%) AI
9 440 (21.00%) Test Automation
10 424 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 420 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 396 (18.90%) Containerisation
13 378 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
14 321 (15.32%) Technical Leadership
15 302 (14.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 297 (14.18%) Scrum
17 254 (12.12%) Architectural Patterns
18 247 (11.79%) Observability
19 236 (11.26%) TDD
20 231 (11.03%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 751 (35.85%) Java
2 573 (27.35%) C#
3 507 (24.20%) SQL
4 459 (21.91%) JavaScript
5 431 (20.57%) Python
6 406 (19.38%) TypeScript
7 85 (4.06%) Go
8 57 (2.72%) Ruby
9 45 (2.15%) C++
10 35 (1.67%) Bash
11 32 (1.53%) PHP
12 27 (1.29%) Bicep
13 25 (1.19%) PowerShell
14 24 (1.15%) Kotlin
15 21 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.00%) Rust
16 20 (0.95%) Scala
17 17 (0.81%) Groovy
18 15 (0.72%) C
19 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 338 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 233 (11.12%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.21%) Degree
4 97 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 85 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 81 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (1.53%) CISSP
9 31 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.91%) CISM
11 17 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.48%) MBA
15 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.33%) PhD
17 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
19 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (10.79%) QA
2 95 (4.53%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.77%) WCAG
4 36 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.34%) GDPR
6 20 (0.95%) NIST
7 19 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 18 (0.86%) NCSC
9 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.43%) GRC
10 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.24%) PSD2
13 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 585 (27.92%) Docker
2 41 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.48%) NDS
4 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) HDFS
8 1 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 647 (30.88%) Kubernetes
2 108 (5.16%) Grafana
3 104 (4.96%) Ansible
4 50 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.34%) Argo
6 27 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.00%) Puppet
8 17 (0.81%) Kibana
9 9 (0.43%) Cilium
10 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.19%) Packer
13 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.14%) Rancher
14 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
15 1 (0.048%) Control-M
15 1 (0.048%) logstash
15 1 (0.048%) MIIS
Vendors
1 338 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 97 (4.63%) Google
3 72 (3.44%) Oracle
4 48 (2.29%) Splunk
5 45 (2.15%) OpenAI
6 29 (1.38%) Okta
7 26 (1.24%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.24%) ForgeRock
7 26 (1.24%) IBM
8 24 (1.15%) AppDynamics
9 23 (1.10%) Databricks
10 17 (0.81%) OneLogin
11 14 (0.67%) Adobe
11 14 (0.67%) OpenText
11 14 (0.67%) SAP
12 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.62%) Mistral
12 13 (0.62%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.53%) ServiceNow